Friday, September 19, 2008

Processed Food Assignment (Nutrition)

A project researching a processed food. There is a subject guide designed for this assignment.
http://guides.lib.wayne.edu/nutrition/nfs2130

Thursday, September 18, 2008

LIS6010 Assignment Librarian Biography

An assignment for LIS 6010. Find biographical information about various librarians from history.

You may also want to try searching the Library and Information Science specific databases (Library Lit, LISA, LISTA) and Biography Resource Center or Biography & Genealogy Master Index.We also have a number of biographical resources in print in Purdy/Kresge that may contain information on this person:

Reference Book: The National cyclopaedia of American biography
Book: Dictionary of American library biography
Book: A Dictionary of Eminent Librarians
Book: A Biographical Directory of Librarians in the United States and Canada
Book: Who's Who in Library Service

Monday, September 8, 2008

What's G. Flint Purdy's first name?

There appears to be a library assignment out there with a question asking students to find G. Flint Purdy's First Name. Here's a record that will help with the answer http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b1899689~S47
(It's George by the way)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

ENG1010 Fall 2008 Assignment?

The article is from Harper's. Here is the citation.

Black Men and Public Space
Staples, Brent. Harper's Magazine. New York: Dec 1986. Vol. 273, Iss. 1639; pg. 19

Students have to find a copy. Our December 1986 issue is in Storage. DPL also carries this publication, so you may want to send students there.

(This problem began with: there is an ENG 1010 assignment that is going something like this:

"Go online and find the essay 'black men in public spaces' by Brent Staples published in 1987"

2ND QUESTION
Students need to find an essay by Naylor. It is in the book "Crossing Cultures" (5th edition) It is on reserve at the UGL Access Desk.

If anyone comes looking for the Naylor essay, you will need to tell them to ask for the title Crossing Cultures:
Readings for Composition, call number PE 1417 .C75 1998.